No, the review is right. Right now pursuing the mission of the ACLU happens to align with standing against the illiberal horseshit of the Trump administration, but that’s a situational convergence and not the group’s core mission. But all too often The Fight frames the ACLU’s vital work not as rock-ribbed civil…

HEY WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT?

Remember when toxic masculinity defeated the Germans in WWII? Good times!

Please unnecessarily insert dumb buzzwords like toxic masculinity into more things. It’s so interesting and not at all annoying. 

Yeah, echoing what Patrick says, and adding: There’s kind of an internet echo chamber that assumes lack of interest from particularly internetty folks (who tend to be a bit more aware of reviews, buzz, wahtever) applies to the culture at large, and that just isn’t the case. By any metric we have (and granted, they are…

It was #4 worldwide for 2014. It grossed $757 million dollars on an estimated $180 million budget. Even if you limit the conversation to domestic gross, it was still #8 and beat out franchises like X-Men and Spider-Man. So to answer your question, there is a sequel because the first one was popular and profitable and…

Is there a moment where one Will Smith starts wailing on the other Will Smith screaming “Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!”

Ok howabout “all the Scorcese films with broad appeal”? 

I’ve seen a lot of my friends hand wringing over this movie, saying we shouldn’t support it because it might encourage negative acts, and my response has always been “Yeah, but what about every Scorcese film?”

You remember Airplane! for the the jokes, but the jokes are built around a tightly structured spoof of ‘70s disaster movies. If the movie were just a day in the life of various zany characters at the airport, it might still be funny, but almost certainly a worse movie.

This isn’t meant as a shot at Dowd, who’s a wonderful critic, but I’m always struck by how little impact “It’s funny” actually has on most critics’ judgement of a work.

“They still were doltish clowns when they built their continent-sized murder machine.”

“Nilus is exactly right that today’s Nazis/White Supremacists get absolutely furious when people point out...“ 

“comedy can be a powerful weapon.” 

Eh, I don’t like personally like turning Nazis into jokes, especially not jokes made by people who didn’t live through it. The best representation of a Nazi, to me, is Eichmann (one of the principal organizers of the Holocaust) on trial in Israel. If he’s a clown, there’s nothing funny about him.

Here’s a collection of…

I’m not sure why I would “take away the jokes” in a movie that bills itself as a comedy?  Like, if you take all the gunplay out of Die Hard it's just a movie about Bruce Willis crawling through vents and bitching about it, but that doesn't make Die Hard bad.

It’s almost like “cancel culture” has no actual effect, and the vagaries of celebrity are bigger and more arbitrary than a Twitter movement.

I like it personally but I also get why a lot of folks, who might be expecting a Scorsese ‘gangster’ type film, aren’t big fans.

He was defending Michael Jackson and R Kelly back on Chappelle’s Show and nobody took it seriously then, and they shouldn’t take it seriously now. It’s a joke. Dave Chappelle doesn’t really think kids should be happy to be molested and if you honestly think he does then I don’t even know what to say. I’m not saying…

Let’s see if I can get out of the grays. . .